Ark: Survival Evolved

Ark: Survival Evolved

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Jezz172

788 posts

179 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Brigand said:
This game started off fun enough, but I'm getting really fed up of the fact that your body just lies in place whenever you log off. Several times now I've logged off for the night, come back the following evening to boot it up and find I'm dead, and upon returning to my base I've found someone has bashed their way in, killed me and my mate and stolen everything.

Quite often I'm seeing in sidechat people complaining that someone has broken into their base, killed their tamed dinos and just generally griefed. Considering the amount of time it takes to build a base and tame dinos, to have it all whipped away from you like that is infuriating.
That's why I only play on PVE servers frown

Brigand

2,544 posts

169 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Jezz172 said:
That's why I only play on PVE servers frown
Ah, so PvE servers you cant attack bases as well as people then? Will have to look into that.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

146 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Got to within 2% of taming a dilo, then a raptor comes along kills it and then me. Sick of this stty game. I'm done with it.

Aphex

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2,160 posts

200 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Dilos are useless anyway, you cant ride them

Baron Greenback

6,982 posts

150 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Dilos you can use as a protection squad, say you have 3 following and will attack any dino that attacks you!

In PvP cant you code lock your house to stop entering your house and put up spikes around them to ward off dinos? How easy is it to distroy a stone house? I always strip off all cloths and put in house when log off as I havent yet put a wall around my house yet, I have foolishly gone for stone walls, takes a while!

This is very alpha dont forget, there is alot more to come including interaction with the fallen parts spaceship that are down. This has just started!

Brigand

2,544 posts

169 months

Wednesday 1st July 2015
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Baron Greenback said:
In PvP cant you code lock your house to stop entering your house and put up spikes around them to ward off dinos? How easy is it to distroy a stone house? I always strip off all cloths and put in house when log off as I havent yet put a wall around my house yet, I have foolishly gone for stone walls, takes a while!
You can lock doors, but it wont stop people hacking down your walls to break in. I'm sure once you put the time in to put stone walls up you'll be more secure, but in the mean time you'll have to put up with people forcing entry and either stealing everything, smashing your utilities or both. Hell, I could just about live with that if your body disappeared when you logged out, but to be killed as well as all the above just takes things too far.

I'd be very surprised if that aspect ever changed though, there are other games, like Reign of Kings that have the same feature, so I see it as being a permanent thing as this is just a copy of that game but in a different environment.

Art0ir

9,401 posts

170 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Just started again on PvE server (EU115) on the South side. Crafting as much narcotics as I can then going to try taming something.

Tried swimming across to a beacon and predictably got eaten hehe

Baron Greenback

6,982 posts

150 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Art0ir said:
Just started again on PvE server (EU115) on the South side. Crafting as much narcotics as I can then going to try taming something.

Tried swimming across to a beacon and predictably got eaten hehe
hehe!

Tycho

11,600 posts

273 months

Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Baron Greenback said:
Art0ir said:
Just started again on PvE server (EU115) on the South side. Crafting as much narcotics as I can then going to try taming something.

Tried swimming across to a beacon and predictably got eaten hehe
hehe!
I got half way across a river and noticed a fin heading towards me. I waited for teeth and lots of my own blood before seeing that it was an Ickthyosaurus (sp?) and had a nice fish supper instead! They are introducing lots of new dinos on a regular basis.

S3_Graham

12,830 posts

199 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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can someone give me an insight into this please?

I really really want to like it. I played hundreds and hundreds of hours on Arma2 overpoch. Current game of choice is Battleroyale on Arma3 purely for its log in and go. No faffing about which is what in the end stopped me playing arma 2. Spent hour after hour defending the base and not actually doing anything.

Reviews always start off as amazing, then you read that everyone keeps dying in their sleep and its too frustrating to be fun. Also it seems to be a very graphically heavy game.

I run arma 2 and 3 ok, think i'll be ok? Don't really want to spend money upgrading just for one game.

Art0ir

9,401 posts

170 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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They're still in early access and in the optimization stages. All actions are completed server side which does increase loads but protects against the hacks that ruined DayZ and the like.

Plus they're literally updating every second day with new features and mechanics changes.

Art0ir

9,401 posts

170 months

Sunday 5th July 2015
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Found a clan to join this evening and spend a few hours building a nice wooden base with lots of spikes. Whether it's standing tomorrow evening who knows but definitely more fun than playing solo.

GT Kodiak

2,907 posts

179 months

Wednesday 8th July 2015
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A friend and I have built a decent base on EU Server 121. I can't stop myself taming new dinos so my poor mate is having to run around collecting materials all the time to enlarge our base.

Picked this up on friday and have been absolutely hooked ever since.

Art0ir

9,401 posts

170 months

Wednesday 8th July 2015
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Art0ir said:
Found a clan to join this evening and spend a few hours building a nice wooden base with lots of spikes. Whether it's standing tomorrow evening who knows but definitely more fun than playing solo.
Got ruined Monday afternoon laugh

All that jazz

7,632 posts

146 months

Wednesday 8th July 2015
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GT Kodiak said:
A friend and I have built a decent base on EU Server 121. I can't stop myself taming new dinos so my poor mate is having to run around collecting materials all the time to enlarge our base.

Picked this up on friday and have been absolutely hooked ever since.
They'll all be gone by the end of the day.

Does anyone play on the PH PVE server for this?

Tycho

11,600 posts

273 months

Wednesday 8th July 2015
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All that jazz said:
GT Kodiak said:
A friend and I have built a decent base on EU Server 121. I can't stop myself taming new dinos so my poor mate is having to run around collecting materials all the time to enlarge our base.

Picked this up on friday and have been absolutely hooked ever since.
They'll all be gone by the end of the day.

Does anyone play on the PH PVE server for this?
PH PVE? didn't know there was one. I'm on Jezz172's server. Liking it at the moment (Got 2 trikes (Terry and Theresa), 4 dilos (Dave, Daphne, Dinah and Derek) and a parasaur (Pete) hehe) and may start contributing unless a PH dedicated one is up.

All that jazz

7,632 posts

146 months

Wednesday 8th July 2015
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Tycho said:
All that jazz said:
GT Kodiak said:
A friend and I have built a decent base on EU Server 121. I can't stop myself taming new dinos so my poor mate is having to run around collecting materials all the time to enlarge our base.

Picked this up on friday and have been absolutely hooked ever since.
They'll all be gone by the end of the day.

Does anyone play on the PH PVE server for this?
PH PVE? didn't know there was one. I'm on Jezz172's server. Liking it at the moment (Got 2 trikes (Terry and Theresa), 4 dilos (Dave, Daphne, Dinah and Derek) and a parasaur (Pete) hehe) and may start contributing unless a PH dedicated one is up.
Jez was the guy I was referring to - assumed to be the "official" PH Ark server. How many of you are on it and play together or is it every man for himself? Seems to be quite a grindy game in terms of gathering resources, much more so than Minecraft for making progress so working together more fun and productive? Are you all on Skype?

Tycho

11,600 posts

273 months

Wednesday 8th July 2015
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All that jazz said:
Tycho said:
All that jazz said:
GT Kodiak said:
A friend and I have built a decent base on EU Server 121. I can't stop myself taming new dinos so my poor mate is having to run around collecting materials all the time to enlarge our base.

Picked this up on friday and have been absolutely hooked ever since.
They'll all be gone by the end of the day.

Does anyone play on the PH PVE server for this?
PH PVE? didn't know there was one. I'm on Jezz172's server. Liking it at the moment (Got 2 trikes (Terry and Theresa), 4 dilos (Dave, Daphne, Dinah and Derek) and a parasaur (Pete) hehe) and may start contributing unless a PH dedicated one is up.
Jez was the guy I was referring to - assumed to be the "official" PH Ark server. How many of you are on it and play together or is it every man for himself? Seems to be quite a grindy game in terms of gathering resources, much more so than Minecraft for making progress so working together more fun and productive? Are you all on Skype?
I'm at the south 1 spawn and there is a player called Torchwood near me but ice never seen another player on at the same time as me.

GT Kodiak

2,907 posts

179 months

Thursday 9th July 2015
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All that jazz said:
They'll all be gone by the end of the day.

Does anyone play on the PH PVE server for this?
What? My Dinos?! Nooooooooo!

No, not my 4 Raptors, Dilo, Carbo, 2x Trikes, Scorpion, Philo, Anky, Pteranodon and Trex!

They're all nicely tucked in to our Dino Yard.

Managed to get down into a cave yesterday and resurfaced with 100+ meat, about 130 hide, some metal and some crystal. Was a close shave though as I went it a little unprepared.

Aphex

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2,160 posts

200 months

Thursday 9th July 2015
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GT Kodiak said:
What? My Dinos?! Nooooooooo!

No, not my 4 Raptors, Dilo, Carbo, 2x Trikes, Scorpion, Philo, Anky, Pteranodon and Trex!

They're all nicely tucked in to our Dino Yard.

Managed to get down into a cave yesterday and resurfaced with 100+ meat, about 130 hide, some metal and some crystal. Was a close shave though as I went it a little unprepared.
Take a sabre, level up its melee damage and its easy street